Acknowledgments

NPScape is indebted to a number of people, institutions, and agencies that have provided scientific guidance, technical assistance, and data in support of NPS landscape dynamics monitoring.

The USGS National Gap Analysis Program for incorporating results of a GAP status code review of NPScape park units included in the Protected Areas Database of the US.

NOAA Coastal Services Center for insight into the development and use of the NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) data.

USGS EROS for providing guidance on using and interpreting the National Land Cover Database (NLCD).

The USFS Forestry Sciences Laboratory for providing data and guidance on morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) and area density metrics calculated from NLCD and the North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS).

The Institute for Environment & Sustainability, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, for assistance with software GUIDOS (Graphical User Interface for the Description of image Objects and their Shapes), used to compute MSPA metrics.